Extreme Gaming Laptops

Area-51 m9750 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual 7950 GTX 667MHz DDR2 Memory Up to 500GB of Storage 1080p Video and HD Audio A monster of a machine capable of playing the most demanding games

Budget Gaming Laptops - Acer Aspire 5920

1. Acer
Acer Aspire 5920 Gemstone
Currently there are two versions of this very popular laptop available in the UK. The Acer Aspire 5920G and the Acer Aspire 5920H. What are the differences betwen the two? Below is a detailed spec of each version.

Acer Aspire 5920G
Design: Curved glossy black lid and clean white interior
Processor: Powerful Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2GHz (x2), 800MHz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache
RAM: 2GB Fast DDR2 RAM! (2 x 1024Mb)
Hard Drive: 160GB Hard Disk
Screen: 15.4" Widescreen TFT (1280x800 - 16:10) with CrystalBrite Technology Optical Drive: DVD Re-writer (DVD±RW Super Multi Double Layer)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 1GB of TurboCache memory - ideal for playing the latest games! Wireless LAN: 802.11a/b/g/n - Wireless Internet Connection
Battery Life (Depending on Use): 3.5 hours 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
Weight: 3kg

Acer Aspire 5920H
Design: New Curved glossy black lid and cl
ean white interior
Processor: Powerful Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2GHz (x2), 800MHz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache
RAM: 2GB Fast DDR2 RAM! (2 x 1024Mb) 1GB Turbo Memory Up to 2x faster performance when loading frequently used applications! Up to 20% faster Windows Vista boot time!
Hard Drive: 250GB Hard Disk
Screen: 15.4" Widescreen TFT (1280x800 - 16:10) with CrystalBrite Technology
Optical Drive: HD DVD Drive with DVDRW (plays High Definition films, writes normal DVDs / CDs)
Graphics: 256MB dedicated RAM - NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS with 1GB of TurboCache memory
Wireless LAN: 802.11a/b/g - Wireless Internet Connection
Battery Life (depending on Use): 3.5 hours 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
Weight: 3kg

The Acer Aspire 5920G has a nvidia 8600m GT grpaphics card whereas the Acer Aspire 5920H has a nvidia 8600m GS graphics card. The 8600m GT is faster than the 8600m GS version and is preferred for playing all the latest games. Although the Acer Aspire 5920H has an inferior graphics card it has a larger HDD (250 gb) and a HD-DVD disc drive no present in the 5920G.

As well as the two Acer Aspire Gemstone models described above, Acer has also released a few other models in their Acer Aspire Gemstone series of laptops.

ACER ASPIRE 5300 SERIES
ACER ASPIRE 5700 SERIES
ACER ASPIRE 5900 SERIES
ACER ASPIRE 7700 SERIES
ACER ASPIRE 2900 SERIES
ACER ASPIRE 4900 SERIES
ACER ASPIRE 7500 SERIES

The models all have the Acer Aspire Gemstone design but vary in specification. The most powerful laptops in the Gemstone design at the time of writing were the Acer Aspire 5920 and the Acer Aspire 7700 series. The Acer Aspire 5920 and 7700 differ in the type of graphics cards used in each and the size of screen. The Acer Aspire 5920 uses an nvidia GPU and has a 15" widescreen whilst the Acer Aspire 7700 uses an ATI graphics card with a larger screen size at 17".

Welcome to gaming laptops

This blog is your portal to gaming and extreme laptops. Everything you ever wanted to know about gaming laptops shall be covered in my posts. Here I look at the most competitively priced laptops on the market and the MEANEST machines money can buy.

Hardware Requirements
It is vital to know the hardware requirements in a laptop for you to be able to play the latest DirectX 10 games on your laptop glitch free. It is not necessarily true that the most expensive laptop will be the best for gaming. The most important components in a gaming laptop are the graphics card, processor and the RAM.

Processor
The processor or Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the primary chip of the system that oversees all the other components of the system and has the most significant effect on performance and price. CPUs have advanced considerably over the last 5 to 10 years. A few years ago the clock speed was used to distinguish between processors. The higher the clock speed the faster the CPU. However processors are more advanced now and other aspects as well as clock speed must be analysed when choosing a CPU for gaming.

When choosing a processor take the processor's bus speed and L1 and L2 caches into account as well as the clock speed. The instruction bus determines how quickly instructions get from RAM to the processor. A slower bus speed processing time can be wasted for the next instruction to arrive. The L1 and L2 caches store frequently used instructions so that the computer can get them faster than it could fetch them from RAM. The L1 cache is faster than the L2 cache.

There are two mainstream manufacturers of processors, AMD and Intel. Currently Intel has the upper hand over AMD with its Dual Core 2 Duo range of processors. Intels Core 2 Duo processors are an excellent choice for those wishing to play the latest games on their laptops.

I intend to keep this website updated regularly. Please keep visiting for new posts on the latest technology currently on the market for gaming and entertainment laptops. I shall be listing the best deals on laptops currently on the market.